WESTERN Europe took many of its ideas and culture from the old Roman empire, which brought about the greatest development in the use of hunting as an amusement or what is now claimed as ‘sport’.

FEW would disagree with your editorial on puppy farms (June 23) — “cruel, inhumane and unacceptable by every civilised standard”.

RYLE DWYER, (Irish Examiner, Nov 22) informs us that the Irish who fled to America in wake of the Great Famine were regarded as the dregs of society — poor, dirty, disease-ridden and uneducated.